“Hirsch proposes the standard of ‘coherence’-the relationship of meaning to the author’s psychological and philosophical stance, to what the author is likely to mean under a particular set of circumstances. Hirsch’s second major criterion is ‘correspondence’-an accounting for all the parts of the work and their relationship to the whole.” (Keesey 48)

“In an attempt to set up a more reliable standard of interpretation, one based on the actual linguistic situation of shared meanings, Hirsch proposes the standard of ‘coherence’—the relationship of meaning to the author’s psychological and philosophical stance, to what the author is likely to mean under a particular set of circumstances. Hirsch’s second criterion is ‘correspondence’—and accounting for all the parts of the work and their relationship to the whole.”
--From Allen C. Austin’s “Toward Resolving Keats’s Grecian Urn Ode” page 48 in Donald Keesey’s Contexts for Criticismhttp://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/01/formalism_correspondence_coher.html

"E.D. Hirsch offers an effective way of approaching such dilemmas. In Validity of Interpretation, he suggests, reasonably enough, when 'interpretive disagreements...occur, genuine knowledge is possible only if someone takes the responsibilty of adjucating the issue in the light of all that is known.' This involves determining a general standard of critical sanity or sensibleness, identifying the various interpretations (in this case, of Keats's lines), examining the evidence relating to each (including biographical and historical), and then judging which interpretation is most probably valid." (Austin 48)

"The imagination creates what is most beautiful and its creations are a reflection of eternity: 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth.' The Ode as a whole is more concerned with eternity than with art, itself a symbol of eternity." Allen C. Austin "Toward Resolving Keats's Grecian Urn Ode"